ASSURED OF A JOB

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 205, 24 August 1932, Page 2

ASSURED OF A JOB

BOYS IN NEW PLYMOUTH. KINDLING WOOD FACTORY. “Every boy in New Plymouth is assured of a job, and can earn from .7/6 a week upwards,” states Adjutant S. Green, of the Salvation Army. The adjutant, who is chairman of the Boys’ Unemployment Committee in New Plymouth, said the committee tad organised a kindling wood factory. A register had been compiled and 68 boys registered. Twentyeight had been found permanent Work, five had been given work in the woodwork factory, and two had been used as messengers—delivering messages or parcels on bicycles for a small fee. The balance worked in the kindling wood factory. “The advantage of having most of the boys in this kindling wood facory is that they are under proper control,” said Mr Green. “Their number is being constantly drawn on to place them in other jobs. Some have been placed on farms. With a view to co-ordinating the efforts of the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor of New Plymouth called a meeting, and a special committee was set up and instructed to bring down a larger scheme of farm settlement.”

A GENEROUS SUBSIDY A gift of £lOO to subsidise the employment of out-of-work boys during the September campaign has been made to the Boys’ Employment Committee by the North Canterbury Provincial Council of the Licensed Trade, pointing out that it is not their policy to employ boys of less than 21 years in the trade, the council has offered to subsidise the wages of 100 boys for four weeks at 5/- a week.